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it would be nice to have a second probe cable. this is the less common 60-pin cable, not the stubbier 50-pin one used on the 1650 series. they're super hard to find for some reason.
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 @tubetime ah so the pmic did protect the CPU, as expected, nice to see that even in this era such protections where already in placw, can't even begin to imagine the complicity of a pmic powering a modern Intel or AMD CPU. |
thinking about the failure a bit more. here's the precise cause with a nice diagram. a high-side MOSFET failed in a short circuit, which would put 12V on the sensitive CPU core rail. however, the controller chip detected the overvoltage and turned on all the low side FETs (circled in green).